SSDI Attorney in Lakewood, Colorado

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To provide Lakewood quality Social Security Attorney assistance as a Social Security Attorney, SSDI Attorney, Employee Benefits Consulting and Social Security Lawyer.

Michael S. Krieger, LLC meeting your Social Security Attorney needs since 1981.

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1) Social Security Disability

Under the Social Security Act, qualified claimants can obtain benefits under 2 programs, Social Security Disability Insurance (“SSDI”) and Supplemental Security Income (“SSI”). Our firm has successfully handled thousands of Social Security disability claims since 1984 in virtually every category of disease or disability.

Given the current national economic crisis and the bureaucratic delays built into the system, it is imperative that claimants have experienced representation. This is true whether the claim is at the level of an initial application or before the Disability Determination Services agency, the Office of Disability Adjudication and Review, the SS Appeals Council, or the United States District Court.

How we can help you: The process of getting SSDI and SSI benefits is complex, with several places along the way where you can jeopardize your claim by inaction or taking erroneous action. Only 30% of cases are granted at the initial level. Many of the cases denied are meritorious. We appeal these cases. We cannot guarantee any result at the initial or any other level, but we have won 95% of our cases in recent years, including initial applications and appeals. In some cases, our research activity has resulted in a quicker decision, as well, cutting months off the decision process.

The Social Security Administration has specific regulations relating to categories of disabling diseases, called “listed impairments.” The key to winning a claim is obtaining medical evidence and opinions from your doctors, stated in terms of these listed impairments or meeting other regulatory criteria. This is where we excel.

2) Erisa Claims

A person who becomes disabled while working may be entitled to additional income benefits from work. Private employers often offer employee benefits to their employees, such as health insurance, life insurance, and disability income benefits. These benefits are governed by a federal law called the Employment Retirement Income Security Act, 29 U.S.C. § 1001 et seq., (“ERISA”). ERISA claim procedures are set out in 29 C.F.R. §2560.503-1.
ERISA benefit claims are very different from other types of litigation, and it is a dangerous landscape for unrepresented claimants. ERISA preempts all state laws, with few notable exceptions. ERISA has its own administrative appeal system. Only after exhausting all administrative appeals may a claimant file a lawsuit, but that lawsuit must be filed in the U.S. District Courts. ERISA has its own rules of civil procedure, evidence and rules limiting discovery. Damages are limited. In our opinion, only a handful of attorneys in Colorado have enough expertise to properly handle ERISA disability claims from start to finish.
Our heavy experience in this narrow area of law has taught us that the insurance companies reviewing claims of ordinary people unfairly take advantage of ERISA’s pitfalls and traps in order to deny as many claims as possible. Please, do not represent yourself in an ERISA case.

3) Pera Claims

4) Other Disability Claims

Many individuals purchase private disability policies from insurance companies, convert their ERISA policies to individual policies, or have their employer (often governmental employers) provide to them disability policies that are not subject to ERISA. Each category of cases involve separate administrative procedures which must be exhausted prior to filing a lawsuit.

Service Locations

Social Security Attorney Lakewood  -  Ssdi Attorney Lakewood  -  Employee Benefits Consulting Lakewood
Social Security Lawyer Lakewood  -  Disability Lawyer Lakewood  -  Social Security Disability Attorney Lakewood

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